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From: "diane miller" <>
Subject: Re: [INALLEN-L] Dutch Ridge Cemetery
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:18:29 -0000


I would guess it is about 1/2 mile south of Chapman, closer to Chapman Road
than Hollopeter Road which is further south. The farm had a name: High
Point Farm. It was supposedly the highest point in Allen County.


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>Subject: Re: [INALLEN-L] Dutch Ridge Cemetery
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:10:34 EDT
>
>Diane,
>
>This is so interesting! I wonder if that house is still standing? Maybe
>it
>did belong to my Myers family long, long ago! Can you tell me about how
>far
>(south) down the road it was from the intersection of Chapman and Auburn
>Road?
>
>Karen
>
> > I have read with great interest the correspondence on Dutch Ridge. I
> > believe that in the early 1960s, I lived in the house of which you
>speak.
> > It was a remodeled, 2-story farmhouse on the west side of Old Auburn
>Road,
> > just south of Chapman Road. It was owned by a family named Jordan, and
> > had
> > been previously owned by a family named Parrot. From my second floor
> > apartment window, I could see the Church and school and cemetery. If I
> > remember correctly, the school had already been converted to living
> > quarters, but the church was empty, and the cemetery in not too good of
> > condition. There was quite a bit of acreage with the house, and before
>I
> > moved away, they had dug a lake some distance behind the house, and had
> > plans to sub-divide and sell houses there. If the house on the east
>side
> > of
> > Auburn road had slave tunnels, I never heard about it. I don't believe
> > there was a river directly behind it, but there was a creek. It has
>been
> > many years since I have been in the area (I now live in Las Vegas) but
>it
> > was without a doubt one of the most beautiful areas in all of Indiana,
> > especially in the fall. Wish I could give you more history. Diane
> >
>
>
>

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